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For the past week the airwaves in France have eulogised Robert Badinter, a name unfamiliar to many outside the Republic. He was the Justice Minister under François Mitterrand and the man who oversaw the abolition of the death penalty in 1981. On Wednesday Emmanuel Macron presided over what was billed as a national act of
Robert Badinter, who died on February 9 aged 95, helped to abolish the death penalty in France four decades ago. The bloody aftermath of a prison siege in 1971 was his tipping point
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